Art Forearm Launch Party + Longitudes: Veronica Anne Salinas
February 28, 2026
Launch party 6–8 pm, Free
Longitudes performance 8pm, $5-10 (NOTAFLOF)
Art Forearm, a new biannual online publication dedicated to the labor and material intelligence of art, will celebrate its official launch with a public event on Friday, February 28 from 6–8 PM at CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock, Texas.
This event will be followed by a performance by Veronica Anne Salinas (Marfa, TX) and LEMB (Lubbock, TX), part of the Longitudes series.
Founded and edited by artist and curator Jennifer Seas, Art Forearm focuses on how artists work: their tools, processes, materials, labor, and the infrastructures that make creative practice possible in the present moment. Each issue is released over time, with new features delivered weekly to subscribers’ inboxes.
The inaugural issue of Art Forearm is titled GROUND. Interpreted both materially and conceptually, the theme explores soil as substance, land-based artistic practice, ground as surface, and the conditions that support or constrain creative work. Features in the first issue include essays, studio profiles, conversations, tutorials, and practice notes from artists and other creative workers engaging deeply with labor, tools, and sustainability.
The launch party will include:
• A welcome introduction by founder and editor-in-chief Jennifer Seas
• A live reading by Art Forearm contributor Skylar Perez
• A raffle featuring limited-edition Art Forearm clothing and accessories
• Iron-on Art Forearm patches available for purchase
• A free patch for anyone who signs up for a paid subscription at the event
• On-site patch ironing for bags, jackets, or other fabric items you bring
• An anonymous question box for Art Forearm’s advice columnist, Jerry Grimes
For more information, visit: https://www.artforearm.com/
Instagram: @art.forearm
Bláithín Haddad: 'where vilest worms do dwell'
January 16 - March 15, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16, 6-9pm
Join us on Friday, January 16, for the opening of an exhibition of works by Providence-based artist Bláithín Haddad.
‘Where vilest worms do dwell’ explores the biological relationship of parasitism that plays out in the cultural phenomenon of colonisation. Specifically, this show seeks to expound on how colonisers impose and disrupt societal and economic norms that make the land untenable. The use of materials that hold memory, including light, paper, and glass, break down and deteriorate throughout this visual work. Glass, an inherently seductive material, acts as a thin membrane that provides the optical illusion of increased access, despite remaining impenetrable. Similarly, the barrier formed by the commixture of organic pulp and metal wire provides a lattice framework that both provides and restricts form.
By means of alchemy, these materials are then put back together in a different arrangement, resulting in a permanently altered fundamental composition. Through this show, viewers are asked to balance the juxtaposition of visual aesthetics with the abstraction of colonialism’s implications for disrupting the fundamental balance of nature.
About the artist:
Bláithín Haddad is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in print media, sculpture and installation informed by her experience as a first generation American, with Irish and Jamaican parents, and growing up in West Texas. She is an educator at the Rhode Island School of Design, and has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including San Francisco, Texas, Massachusetts, and Ireland. Haddad earned her MFA from RISD in printmaking.
